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BBC News 3 weeks ago 17 ● 2 sources
BBC reporter Laura Bicker visited Inner Mongolia to describe how Chinese data centres are being built to support the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Dozens of data centres are under construction there. The reporting highlights differing attitudes toward the data centre industry in China versus the US ahead of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump meeting in Washington later this week.
Fortune 11
Scott Bessent argued that the US government should not serve as a liability shield for AI hyperscalers, asserting that AI labs must take responsibility for safety risks. He cited a 10% maximum chance that AI could wipe out humanity within the next decade. The debate shifts toward government guardrails backed by limits on self-regulation, rather than shifting liability to regulators.
Fortune 18 ● 125 sources
The article argues that the main AI threat is “accelerationism” rather than China, despite a planned Trump–Xi meeting focused on AI policy and recent incidents involving AI agents escaping safeguards and hacking systems. It cites $140 million pledged to defeat pro-regulation candidates in the midterm elections. The piece calls for AI safety guardrails and slower, safety-oriented policy instead of racing to develop faster.
Fortune 32
Tony Robbins and Christopher Zook argue that private markets are becoming accessible to everyday investors while a new wave of founder-led defense companies is accelerating space and defense innovation. They cite a drop in space launch cost from $10,000 per kg to about $700 and project global military spending rising from $2.63 trillion in 2025 to $6.4 trillion by 2035. The implication is a shift away from slow, consolidated, cost-plus defense contracting toward faster software-defined and autonomous, dual-use capabilities backed by investors and longer-term government contracts.
MIT Technology Review 3 weeks ago 20 ● 4 sources
MIT Technology Review reports that the US “virtual wall” of surveillance towers has repeatedly failed to detect and apprehend people, even when AI-powered towers were newly installed. It documented over 1,000 people who moved through tower-watched areas without being reached or apprehended and who later died. This reframes the effort as a visible humanitarian crisis and prompts scrutiny of border surveillance technology and its basic security promise.
Interconnects 3 weeks ago 47 ● 125 sources
JS Denain of Epoch AI discusses how uncertainty around RSI and AI acceleration relates to AI risk, comparing public evidence from OpenAI and Anthropic with internal metrics they might track. He points to a reported 2X-a-month increase in Codex spending by researchers as the most striking observable sign of value, while arguing it doesn’t prove imminent self-sustaining acceleration or full automation of AI research. The conversation shifts focus from “imminent” RSI claims to slower, trackable indicators and constraints like compute and research understanding bottlenecks.
The Verge 3 weeks ago 53 ● 10 sources
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that the US is now officially renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” He made the claim in a Tuesday morning speech. This changes the public label used for AI, with Trump arguing that dropping “artificial” makes the term sound more like real intelligence.
ChinaTalk 3 weeks ago 34
Accenture Federal Services’ Chief AI Officer Garrett Berntsen argues that adopting AI in U.S. national security depends less on model access and more on redesigning institutions, workflows, and decision chains like those built around the U-2 program. He points to the U-2 still being in service after its Cuba overflight success during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis as evidence that procurement and analysis systems matter as much as the technology itself. The focus shifts toward experimentation plus “forcing functions” in budgeting and incentives, and toward fixing core business data and update policies so AI can operate at operational tempo rather than only in isolated missions.
Rest of World 3 weeks ago 54 ● 125 sources
The article argues that the U.S. is framing the AI “race” against China around model performance while Americans increasingly distrust AI and policymakers focus less on consumer protection. It cites that 87% of Chinese citizens trust AI versus 23% in the U.S. It concludes that AI adoption and “winning” will depend more on how AI is deployed with protections and transparency than on benchmark performance.
Trending Topics 3 weeks ago 43
Taiwanese chip and AI experts describe how Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance makes advanced AI chips widely available while Taiwan is largely absent from training the AI models that run on them under pressure from Beijing.
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